Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Social Informatics: Beyond Emergence (15 Jun 2005) Even as a popular understanding of the relationship of social organization to technological systems emerges, researchers interested in the area often find themselves striving for common understandings of these fundamental relationships and attempting to work around (or break through) disciplinary walls. What is needed is a view that allows us to find such commonalities and identify impediments to shared knowledge. Researchers in the area, while acknowledging the capability of technology to help effect social change, seem unwilling or unable to disrupt their own institutions and knowledge ecologies. While there are dangers in becoming too inwardly focused at present, we need to collectively understand and make this emerging field into a visible and tractable space for sharing and fostering knowledge. Article URL: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-05/helavais.html Read 126 more articles from American Society for Information Science sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Social Informatics: Overview, Principles and Opportunities     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy